The Correlation between sleep quality and State Obesity Rates Introduction Duration of sleep, the quality of sleep, and the frequency of sleep are topics for discussion when it comes to research into the world of sleep and its consequences on our bodies and health. Current statistics from the American Sleep Association indicate the 50-70 million…
Benefits of Melatonin as a Sleep Aid for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
This paper examines the prevalence of poor sleep latency, duration, and fragmentation in children diagnosed with autism. It explains the possible causes of sleep disturbances, and its effects on the child and families’ wellbeing. It explores studies that support the use of melatonin, provides instructions for proper use, and explains the limitation of studies presented…
Case Study: Elderly Person With Diabetes
This is a case commentary about a diabetic patient, in regards to the patient interviewed in a clinic setting. The case is studied in a holistic manner, where medical and non-medical aspects were fully covered. A detailed account of the people involved and thoughts are also included. Patient History Ms Linda Mogen*, 76, is a…
Explaining the Nursing NMC Code of Conduct
(A.) A code of conduct is a set of customary principles and expectancy that are considered binding on anybody who is member of a certain group. Nursing and midwifery practice in the United Kingdom are bound by a set of precepts and standard that set the least requirements for anyone wishing to practice nursing or…
Development of Intervention to Promote Healthy Sleep
Development of Intervention to Promote Healthy Sleep Sleep is vital to overall health and healing. In a hospital setting sleep can be interrupted by a multitude of internal and external factors. This project is aimed at exploring ways to increase sleep/rest on an acute care unit and decreasing factors that disrupt sleep quality. Sleep deprivation…
KHA-CARI Guidelines for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
As part of the profession nurses work to uphold and follow all relevant guidelines to shape the care given to patients to ensure effectiveness. The KHA-CARI Guidelines work are used by Renal nurses to ensure best possible outcomes for Chronic Kidney disease patients living within New Zealand and Australia (KHA – CARI nd). These guidelines…
Dental Prosthetic Options
Introduction: Prosthetic options to replace a missing tooth fall into two main categories: Fixed prostheses and removable prostheses. When choosing the suitable treatment option to replace a missing upper incisor, multiple variables involving the patient wishes, expectations, dentist skills and training, cost of treatment, and clinical findings should be taken into consideration (Al-Quran et al.,…
Nurse Role in Sleep Recommendations and Sudden Unexpected Infanct Death
Introduction The sudden and unexpected death of an infant less than one year is termed sudden unexpected infant death (SUID). There are two common causes for SUID one is termed Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) which is the unexplainable death that typically occurs in healthy infants under the age of one year old. The second…
Importance of Human Milk Banks
Background Human milk is the preferred nutrition for preterm infants. (WHO/UNICEF, 2003) Human milk has been proven to be beneficial to reduce the risk of short term and long term complications related to prematurity.(Victora et al., 2016, Belfort and Ehrenkranz, 2017) Not all mothers are able to provide adequate breast milk to meet their babies…
Nutritional Factors for Patients with Crohns Disease
According to Hart & Ng (2011), “Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)”. Kavic (2015) explained, “This disease is characterized by periods of relapsing symptoms caused by immune mediated inflammation”. Around two million people in the world are affected by Crohn’s disease (CD) and includes anywhere of the gastrointestinal tract being affected by…